One of our goals here at Beyond Breakfast is to consistently provide our readers with excellent school breakfast resources. To that end, we invite school nutrition professionals to join us for our upcoming Breakfast Learning Series, which will be conducted over the course of five months using Podio, an online work platform designed for collaboration…
The School Nutrition Foundation is pleased to announce that our series entitled “Building Partnerships Between Schools and Chefs” is available for viewing now at SNUniversity.org. Produced in partnership with our friends at the National Dairy Council, this half-hour presentation is free and can be viewed now by logging in to your SNUniversity.org account. This is…
Are you looking for funds to improve or expand your school’s breakfast program? Is your school enrolled in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program? You have the opportunity to win up to $2000 for your school if you apply before July 26, 2013. For the fifth year in a row, National Dairy Council is…
Increasing breakfast participation is an important aspect of school breakfast, and one that we are frequently asked to address here at Beyond Breakfast. If you are looking for ways to increase breakfast participation at your school, we invite you to try these new “Fuel Up to Play 60 Breakfast Plays,” which are brought to you…
Kim Pankowski is the breakfast-in-the-classroom Field Specialist for School District U-46, Elgin (IL). We sat down with Kim on our recent visit to Harriet Gifford Elementary School to discuss the first year of BIC in Elgin, and what’s next for the program. Thank you for sharing your insights with us, Kim! Beyond Breakfast: Kim, tell us…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Senior Program Manager, Paula Zdanowicz, MPH Last week SNF visited Harriet Gifford Elementary School in Elgin, a suburb of Chicago, for a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom media event. School District U-46 has experienced great success with expanding its school breakfast participation. Since the beginning of BIC, participation…
Yesterday SNF was back in Charleston, SC to see school breakfast in action. The last time we were here, we visited Angel Oak Elementary for our media event in November 2012. We met up with Walter Campbell, director of foodservice, to visit Garrett Academy and EB Ellington Elementary. Our first stop was Garrett Academy, one…
We recently drove down to Guilford County, NC to check in with our PBIC school sites. Together with food service director Jim Faggione, we visited Sedgefield Elementary School, Welborn Middle School, Parkview Elementary School and Smith High School. Parkview Elementary – coffee house chill in the AM The first thing we noticed at Parkview was…
Although National School Breakfast Week is behind us, National Nutrition Month continues with a full calendar of awareness-raising nutrition highlights! We want to express our thanks and appreciation to everyone who participated in our National School Breakfast Week celebration. On the blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter, we made new friends and new connections to…
Breakfast-in-the-classroom is both a solution to problems (like hunger and obesity) and a way to enhance the school day through a shared meal with teachers and classmates. During our National School Breakfast Week celebration we have heard from so many of you–through the blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter–about all the varied reasons you support…
